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Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response

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Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response - Hernández, Tanya Katerí
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There are approximately 150 million people of African descent in Latin America yet Afro-descendants have been consistently marginalized as undesirable elements of the society. Latin America has nevertheless long prided itself on its absence of US-styled state-mandated Jim Crow racial segregation laws. This book disrupts the traditional narrative of Latin America's legally benign racial past by comprehensively examining the existence of customary laws of racial regulation and the historic complicity of Latin American states ...

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Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response 2014, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107695436

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Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response 2012, Cambridge University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9781107024861

Hardcover